outraged at this!

[dean in devon]

i'm sorry but i have to pot this up after reading todays angling times.

angling times website

i am shocked to read this, i have fallen many of times whilst fishing, this is sad and i can see i will end up ruining i all for all of us who fish...

i want to swear but i keeping calm, but i swear that 63 year old passes me i'll smack him!

i hope he will not be alowed to fish on any site!

[Tigger]

Sounds like a con to me just to get a claim in.

[viney]

One of the many problems with our country, compensation culture!

[pearbo]

So the signs will read, No eastern europeans

No taking of fish

No Jeffrey Gardner

Barbless hooks only

 

Oh yeah, and Wet and/or slippery grass

 

 

 

What a joke, and what a tool

[Vagabond]

It is not just commercials that are at risk

Following an incident last year, one of my angling clubs intends to become a limited company

.....any ‘no win, no fee’ lawyer could have pursued the Club, the officers and the members for compensation. Yes, the members...... ......Lawyers will pursue clubs to get member lists and will then profile these lists to identify people with assets. They then pursue these individuals for compensation, whether they are officers, trustees or in any position of authority does not matter. This can all be avoided by incorporating (ie becoming a limited company). Incorporation would limit individual liability to £1. Why would we not do it?

 

I don't know how accurate that is as a statement of club members' liability, but with the AGM season coming up, it is worth investigating for any clubs y'all might be members of.

 

It is quite easy to form a limited company, but immunity from liability is not that simple - you would have to show the limited company had taken all reasonable steps to ensure the venue was safe, directors can still be pursued if judged negligent.

 

To be absolutely safe, the club would have to ban fishing, and fill the lake in

[jason.p]

This compensation culture is crippling our society from NHS and councils down to our fisheries. Greedy fat-cat solicitors and cheating con-men like this have a lot to answer for!

[Malters]

A friend of mine who is a charter skipper is currently undergoing the same problem, again some 60 year old fell of his boat while getting into the tender, moron, and somehow that is the skippers fault, despite the fact that he has been operating for nearly 10 years and this is the first time it has ever happened. The guy wasn't even seriously hurt i don't think, maybe a cut and a bruise.

[pearbo]

So let me get this straight, in theory they could come and take my house/car to pay off the debt??

[larsagi2010]

Grass/wood/rain/ice/slopes make things slippery......

 

Anyone who has a brain should know this! Its not the fishery owners fault in the slightest..

 

Makes me sick how people can claim compensation for their own stupidity

[lutra]

Personally it doesn't surprise me one bit he got sued. If i need a platform like that at work, it would have to be to HSE standards (hand rails......), put up by someone trained and check daily. To knock up something out of a bit of old wood and then sit the paying public on it, is just asking for it these days.